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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Anybody who's 17, or ever been 17, knows that any suggestions your parents make are nothing but lame. But every now and then, one of those lame ideas turns into...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | September 21, 2012
Long envisioned as an alternative to remembering scores of computer passwords or lugging around keys to cars, homes and businesses, technology that identifies people...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | September 20, 2012
Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar is a numbers guy by training. But he's also in charge of the giant social network's foray into what it calls "compassion...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | September 19, 2012
Even if it's just a myth, Silicon Valley loves to cling to the belief that it is a meritocracy.San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | August 23, 2012
For the first time in Stanford's history, computer science has become the most popular undergraduate major—a milestone for a school conceived on a farm but now...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | August 15, 2012
In the past year, education-reform icon Sal Khan has been lauded by Bill Gates as the "teacher to the world" and has been listed among Time magazine's 100 most...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | August 15, 2012
Here's what a successful scientist looks like: Sabera Talukder is standing in an elegantly lighted hall at Google, surrounded by peers from around the world, explaining...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | July 30, 2012
With its booming economy, bountiful reserves of cash, increasing technological infrastructure, and the world's largest number of Internet users, China is raising...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | June 7, 2012
Amid the buildup to the Facebook IPO, serial entrepreneur Steve Blank was sounding an ominous warning to anyone who would listen.San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | May 31, 2012
Technology firms have tripled their recruitment of foreign workers this spring after a hiring lull of several years—a development that is reigniting the debate...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | May 24, 2012
Attention, Silicon Valley: We are losing the robot war! Not the apocalyptic one where robots rise up and enslave humans or wipe us out or turn us into cute pets...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | May 9, 2012
Like a lot of Silicon Valley techies, Francis Tapon had a billion-dollar idea. He just found a different way to bring it to life.
San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | May 8, 2012
Stanford's Workshop on Internet Tracking, Advertising and Privacy last year was attended by executives from big valley tech companies, important privacy researchers...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | April 3, 2012
Andy Hertzfeld was ready to retire back in 2009, following a momentous 30-year plus career where he worked side by side with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to design...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2012
Google's easy. It helps you find stuff. Facebook—duh—lets you connect with friends. Even Intel's a no-brainer—they make those little pieces of whatever inside your...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | March 1, 2012
Forget all the jibber-jabber in this presidential campaign about policy and strategy. The highlight for me of this election cycle came when the Obama campaign released...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | February 27, 2012
Minh Duong-van sees chaos wherever he looks. Maybe you do, too, but Minh is different because he actually understands how to tease order out of the mess and from...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | February 24, 2012
Twenty-one years after he set foot in the United States, Facebook engineer Wei Zhu was overjoyed to take his oath of citizenship Wednesday at a special Silicon...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | February 23, 2012